Bloom Tracing Book: The Tracing Co.

Whenever I see an opportunity to try something artsy and creative, I’m right there. The other week, The Tracing Co. were looking for bloggers to review their Tracing Books and it didn’t take long for me to decide that I needed to give this a go. Currently, they have three books to choose from: Wildlife, Bloom & Believe. Believe is the holiday edition with a huge Father Christmas on the front cover. Even though I was tempted to get festive early this year, I picked Bloom, the pinkness and the floweriness won me over.

The Tracing Co. are a husband and wife pair whose books are designed with the busy person in mind. You create thoughtfully layered images, doing as much or as little as you have time for. Tracing is both therapeutic and cognitively beneficial. The book says: While you relax and trace the elaborate lines, your mind is recognizing patterns and memorizing shapes, which increases your ability to recall information.

You will need: The Tracing Co. book, tracing paper, two different thickness pens, a pencil and felt-tips.

The book suggests to use two black pens: a thick pen for the first image and a thin pen to trace the remaining images in the set. I have a pack ofStaedtler Technical Drawing Pens with assorted line width, so I used the sizes 0.8 and 0.1 which worked perfectly.

Before you start creating your beautiful images, trace the triangle at the bottom of the page in pencil to keep everything aligned. There are three images in each set but there are no rules to say you have to use those three, you can mix and match – the possibilities are endless!

I really like the bolder lines in the middle and the more thinner lines as the drawing becomes more detailed and intricate. It doesn’t take long to get into the tracing-zone, I found it really calming knowing that the picture was going to turn out looking pretty so long as I followed the lines. I didn’t have to think about what to do next, I could just switch off and relax into the moment.

I did a little experiment to see which felt-tips would work best on tracing paper, and my Stabilo Pens came out best. I picked six of my favourite colours and got colouring.

The cool thing is, you can re-trace the design again and colour it in completely differently. As it is a tracing book, you will never run out of pages to do, you can create so many pretty patterns and the book itself will always look as good as new. You can even gift it to a friend once you have finished.

I honestly spent hours and hours just tracing new patterns and colouring in the designs.

It is such a therapeutic activity – just pop your favourite music on and feel the stress melting away.

The book contains 12 stunningly detailed images and it is so easy to use.

It was enjoyable to try different colour combinations and see which worked best.

This book would be great for those who want to improve their drawing skills.

You could even cut these out and stick them onto cardboard to make your own colourful & creative cards.

This was a really enjoyable and relaxing activity so thank you to The Tracing Co. for sending me Bloom to try. I’ve just ordered myself a copy of Believe – the Christmas edition and already looking forward to trying this out in a few months, so watch this space. Which pattern is your favourite? Have you ever tried a tracing book? Let me know in the comments – I’d love to hear from you!

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This post brought back a lot of my childhood memories. 🙂 My parents are engineers and we have always had tracing paper around the house. However, the one they used came in rolls. I loved drawing on that kind of paper and copying images from my favourite books.

This looks like such a lovely activity, and what a good idea to use tracing paper. Flora has so many pads of tracing paper for just this purpose, but I never thought about using it myself. Gorgeous pictures, Bexa, I love all the different colour variations, and great tip about the Stabilo pens working on the tracing paper – thank you for sharing!xx

Thank you so much for the lovely comment Lisa! 💖 I’ve never tried tracing for relaxation before but it’s really calming, I’d definitely recommend. Even better that you can use some of Flora’s tracing paper too! Glad you enjoyed the post lovely 😍 xx

This looks amazing, what a lovely idea. The mandalas look beautiful too. I have seen my mum use tracing paper ages ago. I never personally used myself. But this sure looks like an effective way to de-stress.

Those designs are so pretty! I remember tracing when I was younger I used to love it. Felt so creative when I was doing it! Your designs are so cute! The colours work so well together. Such a lovely review, thank you for sharing 🌷💗xxxx

Ooooh, these are gorgeous!! I’m not the most artistic person in the world, so I think I’d really enjoy something like this. I love the idea of using them to make cards, too. Thanks for sharing, Bexa! xx

It’s pretty cool that the book helps your brain with recognizing patterns and memorizing shapes. This totally makes sense for why kids have coloring books too. For the price people pay, they get a big bang! Pretty cool that you can trace the shapes too. Love how everything turned out at the end. Thanks for sharing this!

This looks like a really relaxing and enjoyable way to pass the time ☺️. I love your drawings, they look so pretty and the colours you have used are fantastic 💖😘. I agree, these drawings would be perfect if you were making your own cards 😍. A lovely post Bexa 😄😍💕😘 xxxx

This looks interesting. I haven’t done tracing since school (many years ago!) but I’d like to give this a go. I suppose it’s the next thing after all the other adult art stuff like colouring and colour by numbers. These look great. Thanks for sharing Bexa x

Mandalas!! I love coloring mandalas! These look really beautiful. It reminds me, I haven’t done this in a while. I used to color a lot, I used it as an active meditation practice. Then I discovered crochet and I switched to that. I might have to go back to coloring for a while.

You get the best things to feature Because, these look so relaxing and I could easily wile away a few hours making designs & colouring them, never seen tracing books before but a great idea will look for some for my niece

I love this! My cousin and I actually have coloring parties (we’re in our thirties but shhhh!). Will definitely add this to the next party and I think I need those liners in my life. The colors are gorgeous!
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What an amazing idea, Bexa! I love that they give you options to choose from and I’m glad you picked this one! The designs are so pretty. Tracing and coloring is one of the most relaxing things out there.

Goodness, I haven’t traced anything since I was a kid.. so this took me back. I love the patterns, it’s like an adult colouring book that you can reuse as much as you want. I love the colours you picked to colour them in too, they look very pretty. I bet it’s super relaxing too. Thanks for sharing ♥

This looks so lovely, I love being able to do something and just let your hands do the work while your brain floats away. That’s why I love knitting so much, and this looks just as relaxing! I love that it’s reusable as it’s a tracing book rather than a colouring in book – so cute 💗 thanks for the lovely review, Bexa!

omg this looks so relaxing!! this would be lovely for when you want to make personalized gifts for your friends and family! looks totally professional but still easy to use! Thanks for sharing this bexa! i want to try this! xxx

The Believe one sounds like it’d be the perfect thing to have during Christmas, I already see so many people discussing decorations and trees on twitter it might as well be December haha!

Oh wait! I kept thinking it was a coloring book not a tracing book and only realized it was a tracing book once I saw the picture of you putting the tracing paper on top and tracing the flower! This looks like it’d be so much fun to do, and it’s a good thing you have a set of thin pens, can’t imagine it’d work as well with a thick one. The great thing is that in order to make sure you aren’t shifting the page around while you’re tracing, you have the little triangle to keep it aligned!

I love the way you shaded in the one flower with turquoise, pink, and other different shades of blue, it looks so beautiful! I’ve never tried a tracing book but now I’m really tempted to go buy one!!

This book looks so intricate and beautiful! I haven’t coloured in years but I have a couple of friends with colouring books and they say that they’re the most relaxing things ever! Also, interesting to find out that stabilo worked the best as I love stabilo pens!